Sausage and Bacon Time!

[mowin]

Its nothing fancy. A masterbuilt sportsman elite. I'm planning on building a smokehouse now.
My wife is Polish, and she wanted a Kielbasa like what she grew up with. She use to buy Kielbasa in her community in Chicago from an old guy who has made sausage for 70 years-he was from the old world. He is no longer around, so I tried my best to replicate the recipe. Once I pulled the test batch off the smoker, she tried it and immediate called her folks in Chicago. They were talking in Polish, and it seemed like every other word was "kielbasa" for the whole conversation. She turned around to me and said, "You're going to need to build a smokehouse, my peoples are going to want some of this!"

Thats awesome. My grandparents on my moms side immigrated here from Poland in the teens. Mom used to talk about the smokehouse her dad made. The old farmhouse is still standing(our family sold it off in the 70's) but all the old outbuildings are long gone.

 

[sealer39]

Its nothing fancy. A masterbuilt sportsman elite. I'm planning on building a smokehouse now.
My wife is Polish, and she wanted a Kielbasa like what she grew up with. She use to buy Kielbasa in her community in Chicago from an old guy who has made sausage for 70 years-he was from the old world. He is no longer around, so I tried my best to replicate the recipe. Once I pulled the test batch off the smoker, she tried it and immediate called her folks in Chicago. They were talking in Polish, and it seemed like every other word was "kielbasa" for the whole conversation. She turned around to me and said, "You're going to need to build a smokehouse, my peoples are going to want some of this!"

Here is a book that I like. You are probably past all the “how to” information but it has a ton of good recipes. The author, Rytek Kutas, is Polish so you might find his history and techniques interesting.

 

[mowin]

tossed on the smoker yesterday. pulled off and let rest over night in the fridge. sliced this morning. the wife was kind enough to make fresh homemade biscuits from scratch, farm fresh eggs and some of the fresh bacon for breakfast. I got the rest last up package and in the freezer.
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Truck is gassed up. Just need address.